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by s3r3nity 11y ago
I don't think it's something sinister -- if you continuously base your conclusions in the hypothesis that Facebook is "evil" (whatever that means), then I can understand why you might feel that way. I see it as a smart p
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
Yes and no -- if you're bad at A/B testing and analytics, then maybe. However, given that FB is growing to 1.5B people, I'd say that they're doing something right in terms of balancing short-term moves with long-term gai
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
Sure -- that makes sense. I find that it depends upon the category or space that the company is in. For eCommerce, this type of interstitial is a no-brainer: users have an easier time feeling more secure purchasing through an app vs. Safari
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
As someone working in tech, and does digital marketing consulting, there is actually a lot of value in these interstitials: 1) Usually the app is infinitely better than the mobile web experience. You can chalk it up to prioritization of eng
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Microsoft Introduces: Send(techcrunch.com)
2 points by s3r3nity 11y ago|1 comments
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
My problem with the hype around this auto-tagging is that Microsoft had this in OneDrive months ago: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2876548/microsoft-onedrive-ad...
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by s3r3nity 11y ago
VC's funding $$ hoping that they will be bought by said monopolies in < 5 years?
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
Is no one going to address the validitiy of their arguments against Google? If you've followed HN / Reddit the past few days, you would've thought that the EU is some crazy entity of whack-jobs. But I can't find much in
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
+1 to you and I agree this is a nice step - though it doesn't work at scale, nor is it 100% appropriate for the ideals of the web. If you think about the web as the penultimate democracy for content, where content of the highest qualit
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#THANKYOUELLENPAO? Only if you like bullying, vexatious opportunists(breitbart.com)
7 points by s3r3nity 12y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
I found this to be surprising about the entire coverage of the case. Following tech blogs and checking HN links, you would've thought that Pao's case was bulletproof, with some minor nuances and qualifications. After reading the f
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
Wow - I guess any apps I build have to satisfy the "If I'm tortured" use case.
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
I always loved Cal Newport's take on this - "'Follow Your Passion' is bad advice" http://99u.com/videos/22339/cal-newport-follow-your-passion-...
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
Only "recorded" in the sense that your Google/Bing/Yahoo searches are "recorded," or your browsing history is "recorded". You don't think your Google Now voice searches aren't? I knew that m
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
Would love to see Boston, Boulder, and Los Angeles added to the list for comparison
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
Yes - I used to work as a product manager in an un-named large tech company (think FB/Google/Apples of the world) that had 2 engineers on my team get surgery. On my team alone! And they only told me during a team outing where alco
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
It was a concept that techies seemed to like, but restricted its viral growth by design. In reality, not many people care enough about their "social graph" to curate and restrict. It's sort of why Google+ really diminished it
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Microsoft Office is now free on mobile(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by s3r3nity 12y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
I tend to like Onedrive's photo storage & management -- and since I have Office 365, it's unlimited as well. Good move on Amazon's part to compete - not sure how Dropbox and the like will keep up with this movement toward
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
Oh come on - it's not like we think Google abandoned their "do no evil" mantra or their mission to organize the world's information simply because they went public...or Apple stopped designing great products and revoltin
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
It's myopic to think that anything/everything they do is advertiser driven. If you think of Facebook's goal as to "connect the world," and with such a large user base on WhatsApp, you can imagine that all WA needed
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
But that goes against the very grain of a free and open internet, where anyone of any income level can access information. When you start creating paywalls, you start creating scarcity of information to justify people to pay those fees. I f
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Office Lens Update Makes Pictures into Office Docs(blogs.office.com)
1 points by s3r3nity 12y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
Why is this front page? Facebook has had free voice calls in their messaging app for almost a year now.
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
I didn't downvote, but it wasn't a productive comment -- it was just snarky and condescending. I don't think this is front-page worthy of HN, sure, but anytime someone at Google/Dropbox/Apple does so much as pass ga
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by s3r3nity 12y ago
I use Onedrive with 1TB = $30 / year, which also allows me to use Office documents with clients of mine (who all use Microsoft Office and Outlook.) The convenience of the "syncing folder" is still the same, and I trust that M
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
>I recently saw a photo that demonstrated that Facebook has an 8/1 content ratio I've also seen similar polls that show that what people _think_ are ads on Facebook aren't really ads per se ... just content from pages they
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Facebook rejected Google + Apple's "no-hire"(online.wsj.com)
4 points by s3r3nity 13y ago|2 comments
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Nadella wins praise for debut as MSFT CEO(pcworld.com)
1 points by s3r3nity 13y ago|0 comments
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by s3r3nity 13y ago
Depends on what you mean by that -- The Halo & Call of Duty franchises have been getting by on great social multiplayer experiences. (Halo also has a great campaign, but I digress...) The great experiment & test of your theory would

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